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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-act-1899/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-act-1899/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/62-63/30",
  "legislation_title": "Commons Act 1899",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commons-act-1899",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Power for district council to acquire property in regulated common.",
  "text": "A district council may acquire the fee simple or any estate in or any rights in or over any common regulated by a scheme under this Part of this Act by gift or by purchase by agreement, and hold the same . . . for the purposes of the scheme . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1963 (c. 30)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed with savings by Local Government Act 1933 (c. 51), s. 307, Sch. 11 Pt. IV"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 7 extended (E.W.) (19.9.1995) by 1995 c. 25, ss. 70, 125(2), Sch. 9 para.1(3) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117, Sch. 8 para. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/62-63/30/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:26:44.195434+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}